Semantic analysis (computational) within
applied linguistics
Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, communication res ...
and
computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includin ...
, is a composite of
semantic analysis and computational components. ''Semantic analysis'' refers to a formal analysis of meaning,
and ''computational'' refers to approaches that in principle support effective implementation in digital computers.
[Blackburn, P., and Bos, J. (2005), ''Representation and Inference for Natural Language: A First Course in Computational Semantics'', Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. .]
See also
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Computational semantics
Computational semantics is the study of how to automate the process of constructing and reasoning with meaning representations of natural language expressions. It consequently plays an important role in natural-language processing and computati ...
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Natural language processing
Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to proc ...
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Semantic analytics
Semantic analytics, also termed ''semantic relatedness'', is the use of ontologies to analyze content in web resources. This field of research combines text analytics and Semantic Web technologies like RDF. Semantic analytics measures the relate ...
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Semantic analysis (machine learning)
In machine learning, semantic analysis of a corpus is the task of building structures that approximate concepts from a large set of documents. It generally does not involve prior semantic understanding of the documents. A metalanguage based on pre ...
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Semantic Web
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SemEval
SemEval (Semantic Evaluation) is an ongoing series of evaluations of computational semantic analysis systems; it evolved from the Senseval word sense evaluation series. The evaluations are intended to explore the nature of meaning in language. ...
References
Further reading
* Chris Fox (2010), "Computational Semantics", In Alexander Clark, Chris Fox, and Shalom Lappin, editors
''The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing'' Malden, MA:
Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley & Sons Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publish ...
, 394-428.
* Agirre, Eneko, Lluis Marquez & Richard Wincentowski (2009)
"Computational semantic analysis of language: SemEval-2007 and beyond" ''
Language Resources and Evaluation'' 43(2):97-104
Computational linguistics
Natural language processing
Semantics
Computational fields of study
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